Puppy Love!

Good Morning and Happy Monday everyone!  Still not ready for Monday but hey...it's here I better get ready.  But Monday does mean it's time for another challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut  this weeks challenge is #95...holy smokes sooo many awesome challenges!  This week we are hoping you can "Label It"  by creating a project using a label shape or a scalloped shape!  Soooo super fun!   You know you wanna join us!  Pull out your Cricut and get crafting!

The Deets!

Cricut: Create-A-Critter and Elegant Edges

Paper: from my stash

Ribbon: $Tree

Twine: The Twinery

Heart-- I think was a SU! punch...but was lying on my desk so not sure!

Some Bunny Loves You!

Here is a fun card I created for OWH.  I love this little bunny!  And the flocking is super fun!  I used one of my cheap punches I found back in December--MS for $4...I love a sweet deal!  Enjoy!  I can't believe it's time to make Spring and Easter cards already for OWH!  

The Deets:

Paper: SU!

Cut: Cricut Create a Critter

Flocking!

Recollections brads for eyes

Stamp My Pink Stamper

Punch MS 

FCCB Challenge!

Happy Monday friends!  It's time for another challenge over at FCCB this week :)  yay!  This week's challenge is "Present Time."  So make a gift, or some gift wrap or packaging or feel free to use a gift cut!  I can't wait to see what you all create! 

The deets!

Paper: Recollections stack (oy I apparently was so into my crafting I cut my paper wrong!  Sideways trees aren't the norm :)

Cricut: Tags, Bags, Boxes and More and Create a Critter

Twine: The Twinery

Linked up to:

Cricut Creative Cutter Room

Little Scrap Pieces Winter Holiday Challenge

Sew Easy...

Okay so I'm still not completely sure that I am in love with this new gadget but I had to have it... my bestie sent me a link with an amazing project on it made with the Sew Easy...well my little card looks nothing like that!  However, the Sew Easy is kinda fun to play with.  I picked up a couple of extra heads for this tool this that punch different designs--so I will have to take those for a spin one of these days.

I decided to link this card Tacky Tuesday Challenge on Facebook.  The challenge was to use a frog cut and to inclue the word "frog or toad."  So I did just that :)  LOVE this frog cut and the eyes crack me up!  Enjoy :)

Tomorrow's Monday...Don't be crabby!

Tomorrow's Monday....so don't be crabby!  I think I might be considering I had a fabulous long weekend...I'm just not quite ready to go back to the office!  I hope when I wake up in the morning I'm a little more ready to be back :)

Challenge #74: Birthday Bash

We're having a bash over at Fantabulous Cricut a birthday bash that is!  I can't believe it's Monday again...oh my goodness things have been crazy busy!  Sorry I've been lacking in my crafting--it's been driving me crazy!  But hopefully things will soon start to slow down...today classes start at the University I work at...so I am hoping everyone will be too busy studying to do just about anything else :)

I hope you decide to join us for our challenge today at FCCB!  We love having you join us!  I hope that today you can find some time to create a wonderful birthday project with your cricut!  Pull out that Cricut and make a birthday card-- I'm sure you need to add some to your stash!  I know I definitely need to get working on my stash!

The Deets!

Cricut Cut: Create a Critter Crab

Paper: American Crafts polkadot DSP, Solid SU!

Twine: The Twinery

Sentiment: MPS

Punch: Fiskars

Other: googly eyes (Love em!)

Hay...Neigh-bor!

Ahhh the joys of a pun!  Nothing says Sarah quite like a pun and I am sure glad there are tons of stamp creators out there that love the pun as well (well perhaps I could limit my collection of pun stamps...but what's the fun in that?)

I have created this card for the M.A.G Challenge and it was to use page 59 from the Create A Critter cartridge-- I am afraid my CAC was crying a bit as I had used it ALL the time just weeks ago and for some reason it has not been my go to cartridge--I've really been "trying" to use all of my cartridges and not just my faves!  I think I've been doing a fine job :) 

So I hope you enjoy my card.  The DSP I believe is from Reminisce--I need to be way better at remembering my paper-- I only say that because I'm the annoying person who always falls in love with paper on someone's blog and then asks where it's from, etc.  Hmmm sure glad no-one has been doing that asking of me--guess I better watch it :)

The Deets!

Solid Paper SU and DSP Reminisce (it's dual sided--same piece)

Cut: Create-A-Crittter

Sentiment: My Pink Stamper

Random Twine from my stash

Punches: SU tag punches

Wishing You Many Mower!

Today at Fantabulous Cricut for the Spotlight Sunday FCCB is featuring a fabulous sponsor: Scrappy Moms Stamps!!!!

Wow...let me tell you...again...I think I might be in LOVE!  These stamps are fabulous.  I love the set I used for my card today-- "Quirky Quotes"  it has so many great sayings!  I had a hard time deciding which sentiment to select!  I did however select this one- this card will soon be in the hands of my Father-In-Law...pending he can rip himself away from his perfectly manicured lawn.  I was pretty sure when my parents met my husbands parents for the first time that my FIL was likely to have been out in the lawn with a scissors making sure he didn't miss anything! 

The Deets!

Cricut cuts: Chore Chart and Create-A-Critter

Paper: SU!

Punch: MS grass punch--love this punch!

Twine: unknown

Stamp:  Scrappy Moms Stamps!!!!

Eye Miss Crafting!

It's true.  I miss crafting!  So I created this little frog with some HUGE eyes.  It just cracks me up.  I found the idea to use the big googlie eyes at the OWH blog!  They are always posting some super fun ideas and well...I love my Create-A-Critter so I decided I had to use this cartridge yet again!  I hope you enjoy :)  I feel like a little something is missing but I'm not exactly sure what.  I didn't want to take away from the fun eyes!!

The Deets!

Cut: Create-A-Critter

Sentiment: My Pink Stamper

Solid Paper: SU!

DSP:  DCWV

Punch: SU!

I miss my blog friends!!

Oh my poor neglected blog and blogfriends!  I have been away for work and have NOT had time to craft.  Oh how I have missed my blog and cricut and stamps and inks...and so on and so forth!  I pull out my good ole favorite cartridge and whipped this card up!  I hope you love it :)  I've missed you all!

The Deets!

Paper: SU! and American Crafts DSP

Cut: Create-A-Critter

Twine: discount store

Punches: SU!

Stamp: MPS and Peachy Keen

OWH Sketch Challenge #72

I'm a little behind in posting but I did create this card for a challenge I found over at Operation Write Home my box to be sent off is slowly starting to grow :)  I really liked this challenge and I encourage you if you've not stopped to check out what OWH is you really should! But only if you want to of course--no pressure. 

I do love this little tree cut from Create-A-Critter and the sentiment is from a set of My Pink Stamper stamps and it's heat embossed but it didn't show up in the picture at all.  Hope you enjoy it!

The Deets!

Paper: Solid SU!, DSP DCWV

Stamps: My Pink Stamper

Cut: Create-A-Critter

Pearl: random from stash

FCCB Challenge #61: Blue Skies

Ahhhh I didn't intend for this card to be so dreary but I went with it!  I had started with the clouds and was going with a dream sorta theme to go with my blue skies but this turned into a card that might work for someone who's having a rough go at life or such.  I hope you can join us at FCCB! for our Fantabulous "Blue Skies" challenge.  Go ahead and make a project with the color blue and a cloud shape--using atleast one cricut cut! I can't wait to see what you create :)    I do love how the rainbow effect came through on the little cloud over the word rainbow-- love it!  Thanks for stopping by!

The Deets!

Cricut: Clouds cut at various sizes from Create-A-Critter

Paper: SU!

Stamp: Inkadinkado

Other: chalk and SU ink

Side Steppin' Skunk

Today the new tutorial at  SCS  was how to create a side-step card.  So I decided to try my hand at this-- I'd don't a step type card before but never one in which the steps were off to the side.  I admit I kinda like it.  I of course had to include a little critter from my favorite cartridge.  I will be sending this little cutie off to my friend Jackie--I hope she likes it....I'm guessing she'll probably see it on here before it makes it to her in the mail. 

I used some random cardstock I had lying around the pink base is some retired fushia from SU! and the green was a random strip--I used one of my favorite punches for the grass--gotta love Martha.  And the sentiment is from My Pink Stamper.  I am pleased to report my bestie is slowing becoming addicted to MPS!  Love it!  I also had to bling out my skunk...she's even holding a bling flower with matching earrings!!  I do feel like a little something is missing on the top part of the tall side but nothing in my stash seemed to fit and I thought if I cut out clouds that would be overkill!

FCCB Challenge #56 Let's Do The Hop!!

Hey everybody!  I hope you're excited for another challenge with the lovely and talented ladies over at FCCB!  I know I had a wonderful time with our Spring Fling Crawl and I hope you all did too!  Today we are doing "The Bunny Hop!"  and I would LOVE if you could join us at FCCB!  Create a project using a bunny or a chick!  JOIN US!!! 

And it's also my wedding anniversary today!  Happy Anniversary Honey---here's to a gazillion more years :)  If anyone has any great ideas about what we should do for our special day let me know!

For my project I did a simple card this week but I do love, love, love me some flocking so I decided to add that to card for this week.

 The deets!

Cricut: Cut from Create-A-Critter

Paper: Not a clue...from the good ole stash-o-rama

Stamp: sentiment from My Pink Stamper

Other: flocking!!  Ribbon scored it at the $ Tree!  Love a deal :)

Oh my...

Oh my...I have to admit I cursed a lot while I was working on this card.  UGH!  So I have been working with a friend to challenge ourselves on many levels--aside from just participating in challenges :)  She had shared a link with me about making some ribbon flowers-- well I decided to make my ribbon flower as the sun instead of a flower.  Along with that tutorial there was also a tutorial on making your own glue dots-- well I was NOT at all successful in creating the dots.  I was super excited and let them dry...I went to make my "flower" and it turned out okay...but when I went to take the glue dot off the paper ummmm it didn't come off at all.  I used parchment paper as the instructions stated but for me it didn't work.  The dot was great but the removal from the paper not so much. 

I created this card for a challenge over at Celebrate the Occasion.  The theme for their challenge is "New House."  I used a pre-made card for the card base from DCWV and the house is a cut from the Create-A-Critter cartridge. 

The Deets!

Cricut Cartridge Cut: Create-A-Critter

Paper: SU for solid, striped pre made card from DCWV

Ribbon: from my stash

Other: brad from M's, MS grass punch 

Still Thinking Spring!

I am still thinking Spring...the weather here is turning out to be quite nice!  I hope it continues.  So seeing that the weather is so nice and I HAD to pull out my new stamps that I picked up from Peachy Keen this card was what I came up with.  I had made the comment that I needed to really begin to challenge myself and to try some new things-- so I did for this card.  I tried my hand using my Peachy Keen Stamps-- love these little faces!  And the ribbon techinique I used is also new for me--and I kinda like how it looks-- it's fun and easy and makes the card pop.  I am adding my card to the fun challenge I found at Scrapbookaholic By Abby and the challenge was to create anything Springy!  And I think this little chickie screams spring :)

The deets:

Cricut cut from Create A Critter--about 3 inches I think...

Paper: Georgia Pacific white and DSP from my stash

Stamps: PKS critter faces!!! Love em! and of course My Pink Stamper-- love them too!

Ribbon: SU! white grosgrain

Other: white jelly pen, glossy accents

Dino-Mite!

I was surfing the internet and came across this awesome challenge blog: Challenge By The Page.  Wow what a great way to host a challenge.  I love this idea and really need to spend some more using all of the pages within my cartridges-- not just my favorites.  I really think this challenge will help me step out of my crafting comfort zone!  I do know my style is pretty fun loving and quirky-- perhaps the more challenges I do the more I will challenge myself ;)  haha feel free to <insert an eye roll> here :) Yes, a challenge is meant to challenge me!  I get it. 

I did of course have no problem using my Create A Critter cartridge and the challenge was to use a cut from page 50 of this cartridge.  So I did-- I will admit this is the first dinosaur I have cut! The paper is from an AMAZING find I found at Marshalls--who would have thought to look for paper there--it was a kit with a bunch of cardstock, ribbob, buttons and a big set of thickers-- for $1.99--what a steal!  I did it as a long card and I think I was quite clever in stamping my sentiment a few times in an open space on the dsp!

Recipe

DSP, solid paper and ribbon all from American Crafts

Dino cut from Create A Critter

Stamp: My Pink Stamper

Other: googly eyes and stickles

Bug Me Anytime...

So I am not terribly fond of bugs-- unless of of course one is referring to my Cricut but that's about the extent of my bug love.  The lovely and talented Barb over at Bug Bites is having a "buggie challenge."  And well because I love her blog I just had to enter...it doesn't hurt that she is offering some super cute bug I mean blog candy!  I am waiting to win her challenge... heck I even left space so I can add the sentiment "Bug Me Anytime"  from the set she is giving away--the set I will be winning!  :)  Ahhh a girl can dream--so wish me luck in her challenge.

My little bug was cut from the Create-A-Critter cartridge...please don't mind that he appears to be missing a layer-- I had a small craftastrophe so this little guy is missing a layer!  Oh well I think he still looks adorable.  And as you can see I left a hefty portion of empty space to add my sentiment... (sending up good thoughts) and the ribbon and gemstones gave it a bit of a pop.  I really like the black rhinestones...they sparkle a tish bit more in real life--my photography leaves A LOT to be desired!  And I'm just not sure I used the right ribbon--not to make excuses for my card but it does look cuter in real life with the sheer ribbon!  But alas I hope you enjoy this card!

Recipe

Bug cut at 3 or so inches with the Create a Critter Catridge

Paper: DSP I believe is American Crafts? Black is SU! and Green is DCWV

Ribbon: from Mike's

Gemstones: from WM I believe--again I took off the outer packing!  Sorry!

A tired owl!

Good Evening Everyone!  I hope this post finds you all well and enjoying the evening.  I can't believe how cold it was here in MN today :( Such a disappointment as it had been so nice here...there's even talk about snow...soooo not impressed by those words.  Tonight of course I decided it was time to do yet another challenge this one was to use one of my feathered friends...so I picked an owl I had not used yet...but alas it was from my Create-A-Critter cartridge.  I used all random scraps of paper that I had lying around... I think all of it is from Die Cuts with a view.  The challenge can be found at Robin at My Pink Stamper--my HERO!  I promise I did use another cartridge tonight!!!  I just haven't put that card together yet :)   This owl kind of looks like I feel... tired and wore out! 

Recipe

Cricut Cut: Owl and Branch cut at 3 in. from Create-A-Critter

Paper: Die Cuts with a View...the base card is SU! Tempting Turquoise

Stamp: My Pink Stamper

Punch: Small Oval from SU!



Best Fishes!

Today my project is all about fish!  I love goldfish and the shaped card challege over at FCCB was the perfect excuse for me to make this cute little card...which then turned into more of a project!  So last night I started making a set of Thank You cards to give to a friend who will doing some job interviews in the next couple of days-- so I set to work on those.  The thank you cards were very simple-- I used a white card base and I also used some random colored pieces of paper I had in my stash.  I embossed the colored sheets with my Cuttlebug and a thank you folder. 

Then I remembered over at the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog the challenge this week was to do a shaped card-- so the hamster started running at full force that's for sure!  So I pulled out my trusty Create-A-Critter Cartridge and whipped out a fish... the layers of the fish ended up being a big bust as I had hit the real dial size button on accident!  Opps! 

So I cut the fish out 4 times-twice for the base and twice for the top layer in orange at 3 inches. And I smashed the card together at the tail so it was able to be a "card."  I added a little white gel pen around the edges and did some highlighting with a sponge and some orange ink.  I then added the "best wishes" sentiment which is from My Pink Stamper. 

Enjoy! 

How I started out... a simple thank you...

Then I decided I needed more colors....20 cards in total.

The fish...minus all the layers :)

Ta-Daaaaa!  The final package!

Recipe

Cricut Cartridge: Create A Critter cut at 3 inches

Paper: Stampin' Up

Stamp: My Pink Stamper

Bag and Ribbon...from my stash I think the baggie is from M's